I had the same problem and Antoine's suggestion was exactly what was wrong.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 1:27 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > Le 13/04/2020 à 02:42, Micah Kornfield a écrit : > > When I follow the instructions at > > https://arrow.apache.org/docs/developers/benchmarks.html > > > > "pip install -e dev/archery" > > > > I get a permission denied (error pasted at the end in full). Are there > > additional steps that need to happen when using virtualenv? > > Hmm, I don't think so. Did you run `git clean -Xfd` in your checkout? > Perhaps there are root-created files lying around... (this often happens > with Docker) > > Regards > > Antoine. >